Free Big Data Sources

Free Big Data Sources

From our client work as well as from out teaching at Macromedia University Munich we know the value of free big data sources. They can be used to gain further insight from external data such as weather data. Thereby business efficiency can be hugely increased. Without having to pay for expensive data. Another possible usage of the data available for free is in our project work with students. In this way they are able to base their projects on real big data without having to pay for it.

That’s why we decided to present to you a brief overview of available free big data sources:

Data Collections

Amazon

Amazon provides data sets for free although computing power on their EWS platform is charged. Data available includes satellite imagery (updated daily), climate data, the million song collection of 28 music datasets, social media data, genomes data from the Human Genome Project and many more.

OECD Data

The OECD provides national Accounts, Finance, Agriculture, Development, International Trade, Labour, Prices, Public Management and Short-term Economic Statistics. This data is available for all 30 members.